A clinician makes a clinical judgment based on his/her experience. He/she cannot identify ...

A clinician makes a clinical judgment based on his/her experience. He/she cannot identify specifically what the patient did or said to lead to this judgment. This clinician is utilizing the __________ approach to clinical judgment.
 
  a. actuarial
  b. mechanical
  c. clinical
  d. statistical

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Question 2

A clinician who uses the clinical approach to clinical judgment is likely to base his/her judgments on
 
  a. actuarial data.
  b. intuition.
  c. empirical literature.
  d. computer-generated predictions.

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Question 3

Clinicians who approach patient data statistically and predict patient behavior according to correlations between objective variables should be aware of the fact that significant correlations may not apply to patients
 
  a. with different comorbid diagnoses.
  b. living in different communities.
  c. of different cultures or subcultures.
  d. all of the above

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Question 4

Dr. Humboldt adheres to the quantitative, statistical approach to clinical judgment and interpretation. Furthermore, he knows that there is a strong association between childhood sexual abuse and borderline personality disorder. Which of the following is a safe assumption for Dr. Humboldt to make?
 
  a. If Patient A reports a history of sexual abuse during childhood, then he or she is guaranteed to have borderline personality disorder.
  b. If Patient A reports a history of sexual abuse during childhood, then there is a 75 chance that he or she has borderline personality disorder.
  c. If Patient A reports a history of sexual abuse during childhood, then there is an increased probability that he or she has borderline personality disorder, relative to patients without that history.
  d. If Patient A reports a history of sexual abuse during childhood, then he or she is more likely than not to have borderline personality disorder.

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Question 5

A clinician who is more comfortable making predictions mechanically, based upon correlations between variables, rather than intuitively, based upon clinical impressions, exhibits a __________ approach to clinical judgment.
 
  a. quantitative
  b. qualitative
  c. subjective
  d. clinical

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Question 6

A clinical psychologist interprets a client's phobic behavior as a sign of underlying pathology in the client. This clinical psychologist is most likely
 
  a. psychodynamic.
  b. behavioral.
  c. a Ph.D. rather than a Psy.D.
  d. cognitive-behavioral.